A14 THE BULLETIN • THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021 C LASSIFIEDS The Bulletin Fauci: Variants threaten U.S. pandemic progress Fauci Dangerous coronavirus variants continue to threaten prog- ress the U.S. has made in reducing COVID-19 cases and immu- nizing the population, according to the nation’s top infectious disease doctor. “While we are cautiously optimistic about the future, we know that many challenges remain,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis- eases, said before a congressional hearing Wednesday. Fauci’s agency is racing to understand how emerging muta- tions of the coronavirus interact with vaccines and therapies. It’s also working with manufacturers to test existing vaccines, as well as new, tailored formulations, against the mutated versions. Data published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Med- icine indicated that AstraZeneca Plc’s vaccine offers little de- fense against the B.1.351 variant first detected in South Africa. Moderna Inc. said last month it planned to test a new recipe of its shot against that mutant. The B.1.1.7 variant that first emerged in the U.K. may now account for as much as 30% of U.S. cases, and the proportion is expected to rise. The South Africa variant has been detected in 81 U.S. cases, and another version called P.1 that surfaced in Brazil has appeared in 15 U.S. cases. Create or find Classifieds at www.bendbulletin.com General Merchandise 504 Employment Opportunities 200 — Bloomberg News 201 Free Items Vaccines: Gov. Brown had previously split with Biden on eligibility phases Continued from A1 “If we do this together, by July the 4th, there is a good chance you, your family and friends can get together in your back- yard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Inde- pendence Day,” he said. Biden said Americans could “not only mark our independence as a nation but we begin to mark our independence from this virus.” Shortly after Biden’s announcement, Gov. Kate Brown said the state would stick with its long-planned phased eligibility that would not match Biden’s plan until July 1. While praising the president’s “au- dacious” timetable, Brown and Oregon health officials said the state couldn’t com- mit to dismantling its priority system until there were guarantees additional vaccine would be sent to the states. “We know the previous administration made previous announcements it was un- able to fill,” Allen said. Both Brown and Allen had praised Biden as a more trustworthy supplier than under the administration of President Donald Trump. Brown in January had briefly opened up eligibility after a prom- ise from Trump health officials that a new surge of supply was on the way. Two days later, she had to reverse her decision and put limits back in place. Allen said after Biden’s announcement that the state would need as much as double the 200,000 doses it was receiving per week in order to meet the May 1 goal without making the already difficult availability of shots even tougher on residents. He revised his estimate and said that it could perhaps be done with 300,000 doses per week. Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin file A physician assistant with Mosaic Medical fills syringes with the Moderna vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Bethlehem Inn in Bend in February. On Wednesday, Allen told the COVID-19 subcommittee that the state was told its federal allotment of vaccine could be impacted if it did not follow Biden’s mandate. “It’s a binding order,” Allen said. The directive was contained in a De- partment of Health and Human Services letter to states issued Wednesday. Acting HHS Secretary Norris Cochran told states that the prioritization some had instituted in the early months after the vaccine became first available in Decem- ber were no longer necessary. “Given substantial increases in the sup- ply of vaccines, it is appropriate to tran- sition beyond priority groups,” Cochran said. Brown did not comment on the policy change, despite requests from the media. Allen said health officials are optimis- tic that there would be a large increase in shipments of the three vaccines: the two- shot versions by Pfizer and Moderna, and the recently introduced one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Allen did not supply any specific num- bers as to what the state might receive. He said that while eligibility would be open, the state would still try to control availabil- ity to reach the most vulnerable left on the priority list. One option is to move up the dates of the next two priority groups. Oregon is currently limiting shots to health workers, residents of nursing homes, educators and day care workers, and most recently, all residents age 65 and older as of March 1. The next eligible group can seek shots March 29. The group of about 530,000 people includes adults age 45, and older with specific medical issues, pregnant women age 16 and older, agricultural and other food processing workers, homeless people, residents of low-income housing, those displaced by last year’s wildfires and wildland firefighters. Under its phased priority plan, another group of about 550,000 people would be eligible on May 1, the day Biden set for lift- ing all eligibility requirements for adults. Brown on that date planned to extend the vaccine sign-ups to front-line work- ers (those who deal daily with the public), those living in multigenerational house- holds, and those age 16-44 with certain medical conditions. On June 1, everyone age 45 and older would have been eligible. On July 1, all adults would have been able to seek shots. There is currently no vaccine approved for children under 16. e e gwarner@eomediagroup.com Domestic terrorism poses an ‘elevated’ threat in 2021, intelligence report warns BY DEL QUENTIN WILBER Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that domestic vi- olent extremists this year will pose an “elevated” threat to the country, according to a report released Wednesday. The brief, unclassified sum- mary also concluded “the em- boldening impact” of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Donald Trump mob will “almost certainly spur some (extremists) to try to engage in violence this year.” The report, released by the Office of the Director of Na- tional Intelligence, comes as the Justice Department and Congress have launched in- vestigations into the violent breach of the Capitol that left five dead, including a police officer. Authorities have said right-wing extremists and mi- litia groups played key roles in instigating and organizing the attack. Alarms raised The intelligence communi- ty’s report did not reveal much new about domestic extrem- ists, but it represents the gov- ernment’s most authoritative assessment of the threat to help guide policy decisions. It de- fined domestic violent extrem- ists as people operating in the U.S. without direction or in- spiration from foreign terrorist networks. The report said the main threat was posed by domestic extremists motivated by en- during “biases against minority populations and perceived government overreach,” echo- ing alarms raised by federal law enforcement officials in recent months. 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Arrests on charges related to domestic terrorism have also jumped by nearly 70% to 180 in the most recent fiscal year. “The problem of domestic terrorism has been metasta- sizing across the country for a long time now,” Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 2, “and it’s not going away anytime soon.” The intelligence community report cited danger posed by people spurred to act by more recent narratives, including the assault on the Capitol and for- mer President Donald Trump’s monthslong falsehood-filled campaign to overturn an elec- tion that he lost. The report said domestic extremists were almost certainly also being motivated by “conspiracy the- ories promoting violence” and “conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.” Lone wolves The assessment also raised concerns about the threat posed by “lone offenders” and “small cells” of extrem- ists, which might be difficult for law enforcement to detect. Such individuals and small groups are more likely to carry out attacks than organizations that advocate anti-government or discriminatory views, the report said. Such lone extremists pose “significant detection and dis- ruption challenges because of their capacity for independent radicalization to violence, abil- ity to mobilize discretely, and access to firearms.” Wray testified that lone wolves were difficult to catch and detect because “it seems like people are coming up with their own sort of customized belief systems, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and they put it together, maybe combined with some personal grievance of something that’s happened in their lives, and that drives them.” The report concluded that racially and ethnically mo- tivated extremists pose the “most lethal” threats. They are also the most likely to conduct “mass-casualty attacks against civilians,” it said. The report was issued the same day police arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion that he killed eight people, in- cluding six Asian women, at three Atlanta-area spas during a two-hour rampage Tuesday. Though a law enforcement of- ficial said the attacks did not appear to be racially motivated, another said it was too early in the investigation to rule out race as a factor. Seven of the dead were women. Authorities and advocates across the country say they are battling a rise of hate crimes targeting Asians and Asian Americans amid false percep- tions that they are responsible for the pandemic. President Joe Biden, who has spoken forcefully against such hate crimes as recently as Wednesday, had ordered the intelligence report on extrem- ism soon after his inaugura- tion. The full, classified report was sent to the White House and Congress. On Wednesday, Rep. 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